In handling first time posts, sometimes I encounter a 'write my software for me' non-question. Is there a link to SO official guidelines that I can give in such cases? Also, when I flag it, what is ...

At the risk of asking another question that will be poorly received:
I wanted to share some knowledge I had recently acquired, and as I couldn't find a simple answer to my original research question ...

I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How to program my computer to open a file with a certain application and change the extension
Could someone help me understand why my question was put ...

I’ve answered a question that’s now closed as too broad, this one: Realtime video processing for the complete Windows desktop
I’ve reworked the question. What do you think, is it still too broad? If ...

Ruby, check if Input.press? key is held for several seconds?
Yes, it's short and has no code, but the question is very clear to me. "I want to check if the user is holding a key for several seconds" -...

This is concerning the question: How can I create the Windows 10 calendar in VBA Excel?
This question has 4 close-votes and a lot of upvotes. It is a self-answer that appears broad… until you realise ...

Look at this SO question.
The user wants specific output on given input, but the question has been put on hold as too broad.
It's very straight forward (OK not very straight forward but I understand ...

There's currently a featured question in tkinter, manipulating values in Tkinter [Python]. I believe it is too broad. Is it not? Is it something else? I believe it is clear that it could use some form ...

I recently asked a question asking for one solution in any of several frameworks. I was clear that I didn't need all of them.
It was closed as too broad.
Before you take a look at it, please keep in ...

I just saw and answered a question. To my surprise, the question was closed as "too broad":
How to have children form with Access?
I have some experience on SO (> 100k rep), and I have cast a lot of ...

A while back I flagged this question:
Any way to add multiple images on Materialbox Materialize CSS?
As too broad. As it turns out it may have been a victim of the error I pointed out here:
Flagged ...

I asked this question on how to find methods with modified code between two versions of a Java class. The initial version came with too much background code (or at least that's what the one comment, ...

I found this question today. In the current state, the question is too broad, at least in my opinion (there is no easy way to detect if something is acting malicious or not). However I think that this ...

SVG Path Data Regex C# is a question that was put on hold as to broad, which suprised me as I believed to understand it clearly, and gave a simple answer.
What I now believe what happened is that a ...

My answer to this question from 2013 is accepted and currently has a score of 17. Yet the question itself is closed as "too broad".
Based on the acceptance and the comments left by the OP, it seems ...

I posted a question about what is the fastest way to combine CSV files with headers here. It has a very specific instruction how I calculate the benchmark and I have got very insightful comments and ...

I asked this question:
Running two different sessions of RStudio on the same Windows pc
It has been put on hold because too broad. I don't understand why. It seems to me the question is quite simple:...

I asked a question the other day, a very basic n00b question, and ultimately it's a binary, yes/no, question.
Yet now I have 5 downvotes and it's marked to get closed for being "too broad". How is a ...

I'd really like to understand the concept of questions considered being as "too broad". For instance, what makes a moderator to flag one question as too broad?
I see a lot of good questions flagged ...

I just saw How to compile a c++ program using the terminal on a mac. That question has 11 (eleven) downvotes, but no close requests?!
Now I am wondering: is the question actually "too broad"; or just ...

I'm asking this in relation to the following question, but I'm interested in the community's view in general principle, not just in relation to the example question mentioned.
Example: The question ...

Here's the question. Here's the question before the edit.
The edit invalidated two answers and was done "to protect it from being removed"
The question also mentions other tools that the OP tried to ...

I came across this question about pandas: Replacing loop with efficient pandas dataframe operation
It applies several statistical models to a dataframe and extracts some model statistics (intercept, ...

Recently I've seen two questions in a very similar fashion being flagged differently. I'm only starting to actually get acquainted with reviewing posts so I might be totally off here, but it seems to ...